PureCountry
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Farmers may have found some financial benefits, but they are also reaping the pains of glyphosate and GMO seeds. You are locked in, tied down and have to play by the rules. Yes, that is a conscious choice, but there are few choices for alternative seed or chemical these days, and if you think that is an accident just keep your head in the sand.
Michael Taylor is Deputy Commissioner of the FDA. He was formerly the Vice President of Monsanto.
One of the Supreme Court Justices ruling on the case that started this thread was formerly an attorney for Monsanto.
If that type of monopoly seems like good business sense to some of you, I guess that's your choice. To me, it's a damn shame that the government of the USA and Canada have allowed this type of monopolization to take over our food system. Monsanto and the like have spewed this propaganda that they are bringing new technology to farming that makes it better for farmers and grows more food. BS.
They brought new technology - yes. It does not make it better. It's just a different way of doing things. There are many ways to grow high quality, high yielding crops without chemical, and have been for centuries. It's called soil management, and it is the only way to grow food that truly has nutrients in it, and doesn't need chemical crisis management to keep it alive.
There are farmers growing these type of truly healthy crops and feed all over the world without Monsanto or any other new/better technology. Growing the kind of grains and oilseeds that never become stricken with fungus or devoured by pests, because they grow the plant healthy. High sugar content in the plant and a balanced pH between 6 & 7 means no fungus, and no pests.
There are also farmers growing feed/forage so nutritious that the stock eating it refuse mineral, eat fewer pounds per day and gain more weight. It all comes from high sugar, balanced pH forage, which comes from healthy soil, also with a balanced pH, that has 70+ elemental nutrients in it, instead of an annual drenching of NPK.
It can be done. It is being done. If you want to keep farming with chemical, that's your choice. If you don't, start reading, start researching. Don't complain about Monsanto on one hand and do nothing with the other. Look up companies like GSR Calcium in South Dakota, Soil Works LLC, Mid-West Agventures, Neil Kinsey Ag consultants, or www.back-to-your-roots.com in Canada and hundreds of others.
I don't like any entity as greedy as Monsanto, but I'm sick of people complaining about them if they aren't going to get off their ass and make some changes. It's like whining on coffee row about government, but not going to the polls to vote.
Michael Taylor is Deputy Commissioner of the FDA. He was formerly the Vice President of Monsanto.
One of the Supreme Court Justices ruling on the case that started this thread was formerly an attorney for Monsanto.
If that type of monopoly seems like good business sense to some of you, I guess that's your choice. To me, it's a damn shame that the government of the USA and Canada have allowed this type of monopolization to take over our food system. Monsanto and the like have spewed this propaganda that they are bringing new technology to farming that makes it better for farmers and grows more food. BS.
They brought new technology - yes. It does not make it better. It's just a different way of doing things. There are many ways to grow high quality, high yielding crops without chemical, and have been for centuries. It's called soil management, and it is the only way to grow food that truly has nutrients in it, and doesn't need chemical crisis management to keep it alive.
There are farmers growing these type of truly healthy crops and feed all over the world without Monsanto or any other new/better technology. Growing the kind of grains and oilseeds that never become stricken with fungus or devoured by pests, because they grow the plant healthy. High sugar content in the plant and a balanced pH between 6 & 7 means no fungus, and no pests.
There are also farmers growing feed/forage so nutritious that the stock eating it refuse mineral, eat fewer pounds per day and gain more weight. It all comes from high sugar, balanced pH forage, which comes from healthy soil, also with a balanced pH, that has 70+ elemental nutrients in it, instead of an annual drenching of NPK.
It can be done. It is being done. If you want to keep farming with chemical, that's your choice. If you don't, start reading, start researching. Don't complain about Monsanto on one hand and do nothing with the other. Look up companies like GSR Calcium in South Dakota, Soil Works LLC, Mid-West Agventures, Neil Kinsey Ag consultants, or www.back-to-your-roots.com in Canada and hundreds of others.
I don't like any entity as greedy as Monsanto, but I'm sick of people complaining about them if they aren't going to get off their ass and make some changes. It's like whining on coffee row about government, but not going to the polls to vote.
